Cigar cutter and lighter.



P atpn-'ted .luly 30, I90I.

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(Application tiled-leb. 14, 1901.) (No- Model.)

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL A. ROSENHOLZ, OF VARDNER, IDAHO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO SEYMOURPHILIP REARICK, OF SAME PLACE.

CIGAR CUTTER AND LIGHTER.

SPEGIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 679,638, dated July 30.1901.

Application filed February I4, 1901. Serial No. 47,243. (No model.)

To (all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that l, CARL A. RosENHoLz, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of IVardner, in the county of Shoshone and State ofIdaho, have invented a new and Improved Cigar Cutter and Lighter, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of cigarlighters in which a wick ofan oil or spirit lamp is ignited by an electric spark; and one object isto so connect the lamp or torch with the body portion or hood that itmay swing and rotate freely with relation to the body portion or hood,thus preventing the twisting and possible breaking of the electricwires, and, further, to provide in connection with the device acigar-tip cutter Operated by a swinging movement of the torch.

I will describe a cigar cutter and lighterembodying my invention andthen point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure 1 is a side view of a device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is afront view. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 4 is a top Viewof one of the electrodes.

The device comprises a hollow body portion or hood l, on the lower endof which the lamp or torch is mounted to swing. This lamp or torch has afount 2 for oil or spirits, and removably connected to the fount is thewicktube 3. This wicktube extends through a casing 4 on the lower end ofthe hood or body portion 1 and is pivotally connected therein by pins ortrunnions 5, extending from the wick-tube into the side walls of saidcasing. As here shown, these pins or trunnions extend from a collar 6,secured to the wick-tube, and in this collar is a curved cutting-blade7, designed to clip off the tip of a cigar when said tip is insertedthrough an opening 8 in the front wall of the casing 4.

Attached to the upper end of the body or hood l and arranged forwardthereof is a tube 9, with which a flexible tube 10 is removablyconnected. The current-carrying wires extend through the tube 10, andone is in electrical connection with the metallic portion of the device,and consequently with an electrode ll on the upper end of the wick-tube.This connection is indicated at 12. The other wire is carried downwardand connects with a metal rod 13, which extends through a bushing 14.,of insulating material, inserted in the lower end of the tube 9. Mountedto swing relatively to this rod 13 is the other electrode 15. Thiselectrode 15 is pivoted to the side 6o walls of a boxing 16, adjustablyconnected to the rod 13. As here shown, the front wall of this boxing isprovided with a slot through which a screw 17 passes into said rod.Attached to the rear side of the rod 13 is a spring 65 1S, the free endof which is designed to engage With the upper portion of the electrode15 when the said electrode 15 is moved outward by the electrode 1lengaging therewith, the spring 1S permitting said electrode 15 to 7oyield sufficiently to permit the electrode 11 to pass it, and thus breakthe connection and make the spark.

The Wick-tube is free to rotate in the collar 6, and therefore should aperson twist or turn the lamp or torch while swinging thesame saidtwisting motion will not be transmitted to the conducting-wires by meansof which the device is suspended. Therefore there is very little or nodanger of breaking the wires 8o or of abrading their insulating-cover.

In operation after inserting the tip of a cigar through the opening 8 aperson by graspingthe fount 2 of the lamp may rock the same, causing theblade '7 to clip off the tip of the 85 cigar, and during'this rockingmovement the electrode 11 will engage with and separate from theelectrode 15, thus making the spark to ignite the wick or the gas formedat the end of the wick. Upon releasing the hold on 9o the fonct the lampwill swing back to its normal or vertical position, passing the Wickinto the hood 1, which will extinguish the flame.

It will be noted that the wick-tube extends a considerable distance intothe fount, as at 3a. 95 This is to prevent an unequal pressure of oil onthe wick should the fount be turned upside down, as in such event theoil would surround the tube Without engaging the wick.

Having thus described my invention, I 10o claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. In a cigar-lighter, a hood or body portion,a collar mounted to swing on the lower end of said hood or body, a lamphaving its wicktube extended through the collar and adapted to rotatetherein, an electrode carried on the Wick-tube, a spring-pressedelectrode forward of the hood or body portion, and electrical Ybearingsin said boxing, a cutter-blade carried by said collar, a lamp having itswicktube extended through said collar and mounted to turn therein, anelectrode carried by the wick-tube, a swinging electrode forward of thehood or body portion, and electrical connections for said electrodes,substantially as specified.

3. A cigar-lighter, comprising a hood or bod-y portion, a lamp mountedto swing thereon, an electrode carried by said lamp, a tube attached toand arranged forward of said hood or body portion, a metal rod extendedfrom the lower portion of said tube but insulated therefrom, a casingvertically adjustable on the lower portion of said rod, an electrodepivoted to said casing, and a spring attached to the rod and adapted tobear its free end against said electrode, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed m'y naine to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CARL A. ROSENHOLZ.

Witnesses:

J oHN H. WEBER, C. H. WENTZ.

